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Google Public DNS is a recursive DNS resolver, similar to other publicly available services.

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How can I choose between using my ISP's DNS, or Google's 8.8.8.8?

It seems like a good idea to use Google's public DNS 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 because it's really fast -- much faster than my own ISP's DNS! -- and probably more reliable, too. That seems like a ridiculously quick win for me, and much easier to…
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is 8.8.8.8 located on one location

are servers 8.8.8.8 (or 8.8.4.4) located on location, or are they distributed throughout the world? what I am interested in is, if I issue DNS request from austria, will I get reply from US or from datacenter in europe? thanks almir
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Downside of using public DNS in corporate network

Is there any downside to using a public DNS service like Google's 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4 for corporate network DNS service, as in making it the network connection's DNS server for an AD DC? It seems like if there was not a downside everyone would prefer an…
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What would happen if someone would flush host from Google public DNS while it's name server is down?

During the recent DDoS attack on Dyn servers, many websites couldn't be reached for quite a while. However, these websites were resolvable via Google's public DNS servers. I assume IP addresses were cached for a TTL amount of time since last check…
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ISP is DNS Hijacking. Updated DNS to Google OpenDNS, but still hijacked

I'm visiting India, and saw that their main provider, Airtel, limits the entirety of the internet to just a small handful of websites festooned with their own advertisements, and annoying redirects. I'm trying to come up with a simple and easy way…
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Use different dns servers for CDNs

Back when google first released their 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 dns servers I did some profiling, and they are way faster for our location. A more recent test confirms this is still the case. However, after careful consideration I declined to make the…
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google dns and my linux server

Last night we were having some serious server events. At first it appeared that our issue was with google (8.8.8.8). We would run ping and at some point we would have some packet loss. At about the same time our systems would pop a DNS getaddr()…
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Is Google Public DNS (for my browser, not my website) faster than your run of the mill DNS?

I was looking up info on using Google DNS for our website but found info on using Google Public DNS for our local computers. Anyone know if how much faster it is? Or a good way to measure it?
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Subdomain hosted on AWS sometimes doesn't resolve towards 8.8.8.8

Recently we've been having sporadic trouble resolving our subdomain towards 8.8.8.8, so we created a second subdomain for testing, with which we are unable to replicate the issue. Original subdomain - 42894078.sip.teltel.io - fails occasionally…
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Windows DNS server local external resolution only

Thanks for your help. I have a windows 2012 r2 server we are using for an internal DNS. This DNS server requires and external connection in order to use GADS (Google apps directory sync) and Google password sync. Is there a better way to make these…
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How to map a public DNS tor private NLB in AWS

I have an internal NLB. I cannot make it public. Can I map a public dns to this internal NLB. Can this be done by route 53?
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Universal bucket in Google Cloud Platform for content, which would determine the user's location and serve content from the closest server?

I am a mobile application developer. I use Google Cloud bucket to store 10-second videos and photos that I use in the application. Thousands of users use the application every day, and I want to use a CDN to ensure that the content of the…
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Sometimes 8.8.8.8 does not find our domain

When resolving towards 8.8.8.8 from a local wi-fi or a personal hotspot, etc. it sometimes fails. Responses are received from these Google IP addresses: 74.125.46.10 74.125.112.1 74.125.112.9 74.125.x.x 74.125.z.z 74.125.w.w But when resolving…
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Subdomain sometimes fails to resolve towards 8.8.8.8

We took care of implementing the changes you suggested for sip.teltel.io in our previous questions, but it did not improve. Subdomain hosted on AWS sometimes doesn't resolve towards 8.8.8.8 8.8.8.8 Fails to resolve our subdomains randomly 8.8.8.8…
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Neep help in properly setting up load balancer and googl cloud cdn

I tried to set up google cloud cdn for my server on google compute engine. I have done everything correct but images on my server are not getting cached. cache hit ratio is n/a. in logs, i am getting 200 status code for http://(ip…
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